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Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”
WOW! I have a hard time remembering the person I just met’s name. LA sounds a lot better. You can totally tell that a hispanic person named that city giving it a first name, a middle name, a last name, it’s mother’s maiden name, the grandmother’s maiden name and the neighbor’s mother’s maiden name. Geez.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
I’m not making this up, look it up.
If the population of China walked past you in a single file line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
I am speechless.
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.
I’ll wait while you try to remember it. You’ll be back tomorrow to look at it again. You know what? Just write it down cause you’re not going to remember it.
12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily, on average!
I know what a lot of you must be thinking….. that this explains a lot!
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
I want to invent a name that people will start giving their children.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Very strange. Let’s just be glad that this is not the case for us because women would be dying every 3 seconds.
If you pour a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Thank you man with chocolate bar. Now the whole world can have hot food in three minutes or less. Why didn’t this man get the Nobel Prize?
I guess this makes everyone allergic to peanuts.
Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
Still doesn’t explain why he liked to play with puppets.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
I bet you use this one at work tomorrow.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.
No wonder we die so young.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
All they really need to know is to swim. It’s not like they need to remember what their name is, or how many calories are in those flakes they eat.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
I bet you’re also thinking, “I didn’t know that that was Franklin Roosevelt on the dime?” Am I right?
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
This is something that every at home mother needs to know.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”
Was this CD really ever on high demand to have it pressed first before Pink Floyd or Rush?
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
This one Speaks for itself.
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